chuck wagons

A form of chuck wagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, and used to prepare meals, as on a ranch, in a lumber camp, or during a cattle drive in the latter part of the 19th century.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of chuck wagon
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